Sheer Agony

Sheer Agony playing NYC & Philly this weekend

Montreal’s Sheer Agony are hopping across the Canadian Border this weekend for a couple East Coast shows. They’ll play NYC’s Cake Shop on Saturday, April 16 with Philadelphia’s Literature, plus Home Lives, Ratbath, and DJ Paul Bruno spinning between sets. On Sunday (4/17) they’ll play Philly’s Ortliebs with Louie Louie and Beat Jams. Tickets for […]

25 artists to watch in 2016 (that are playing SXSW)

From Anderson .Paak to Iggy Pop to Loretta Lynn to Protomartyr to Stealing Sheep.

Philadelphia's Lantern ready 'Black Highways And Green Garden Roads' (listen to "We Are Here")

Philadelphia’s Lantern are set to release their new album, Black Highways And Green Garden Roads on February 19 via Fixture Records (cassette) and Sophomore Lounge (vinyl)…

Our Favorite Albums of 2015

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc…

Sheer Agony released 'Masterpiece' (stream it), playing Cake Shop in January

Montreal’s Sheer Agony released their long-awaited debut album, Masterpiece, back in October via Couples Skate. While the title is definitely tongue-in-cheek, it isn’t that far off either — 13 witty, exceedingly melodic, instrumentally/lyrically sharp guitar pop nuggets…

listen to Ep 2 of BrooklynVegan's "Spotify In Residence" show

The second episode of BrooklynVegan’s “In Residence” show on Spotify is now live. It’s part two of our 2015 wrap-up where BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play more of their favorite songs of the year, and discuss such topics as favorite live bands, overused words in band names, comebacks, and what we’re looking forward to in 2016…

CMJ pics: Sheer Agony, Laced & Mega Bog @ Baby's All Right

After catching Stealing Sheep at Living Room, I popped over to Baby’s All Right briefly to catch Montreal’s Sheer Agony who were playing the Bayonet / Couples Skate showcase…

15 artists we're excited to see at CMJ 2015

CMJ is upon us here in NYC, which means hundreds of artists from around the world will be playing too many shows to keep track of over the next five days (10/13-10/…
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